Szentendre, North of Budapest

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Szentendre is a picturesque town by the River Danube near the capital city with baroque architecture, churches of various faiths, narrow side streets, and cobblestone walking streets.

The town is known for its museums (most notably the Open-Air Ethnographic Museum), galleries, and artists. Due to its historic architecture and easy rail and river access, it has become a popular destination for tourists and for settlers of all nations. Since the Middle Ages, Szentendre and the surrounding villages had been settled by many Bulgarians and Serbs, at one point it had as many as eight Serbian Orthodox church and three chapels, and only one each of Roman-Catholic and Evangelical.

In the 18th century, after liberation from the Ottomans, the Crown recruited farmers and artisans from Germany and southern Slavs to repopulate areas that had been occupied by the Ottomans. As a result Szentendre enjoyed a rebirth, with new settlers including Serbian, Croatian, Slovak, and Greek immigrants, who settled alongside the Hungarian residents.

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